Archive for Juli, 2010

It’s time for the inevitable, it’s time to say goodbye. Today is the last day of our exhibition at the Neurotitan gallery and if you haven’t been there already to check it out this is definitely your final chance to do so! After that we will pack up, take a break, or even go on holiday. When we feel like everyone’s brain is refreshed again we will gather and talk about Papergirl’s future which we will keep you posted about on this pretty blog of course.

We did it! Yesterday we delivered the incredible number of 584 (!) rolls of art in the streets of Berlin and needless to say we had an absolutely great time. The weather was perfect (YES!), our delivery gang was just lovely (We heart you!), the reactions of the clueless passersby were priceless (We mostly heart them, too!), and once again we brought some fun, love, and beautiful chaos to the city of Berlin.

Of course we want to share this wonderful event with everyone therefore we highly recommend checking out our photo section where you will already find a lot of awesome pictures taken by Just. Videos and more photos will follow soon!

In the meantime, if you have been part of the action, seen us in the streets, or were lucky enough to catch an art roll, feel free to upload your pictures to our Flickr group, add videos to our Vimeo group or write us an E-Mail.

We want to see and read everything connected to Papergirl #5. But for now the most important thing to say is: Thanks so much everyone who made this fantastic project possible!

Well, it’s not hard to guess what this post is going to be all about, eh? Since we had to change the schedule due to to obvious weather reasons we will now be partying instead of doing the work part first – not the worst option if you ask me.

So we’re looking forward to seeing everyone of you later at the Brunnen70 where we teamed up with the Raum18 in order to have an awesome party. This will also be our birthday bash as Papergirl turned 5 this year and we want to celebrate this anniversary with you!

Rain can be a beautiful weather phenomenon, and Berlin has actually been craving for it since the heatwave struck us a couple of weeks ago. Whereas other cities enjoyed a few showers here and there, Berlin kept melting away. Constantly. Now guess what happened when we finally had decided to set a date for our famous distribution of the art rolls? Well, the rain chose to join us and will be indeed in town tomorrow.

That’s nice.
Kind of lovely even.
It’s just that… this guy has such an incredibly bad timing!

So to make sure that the precious artworks you contributed to Papergirl #5 won’t be flawed, we have to postpone the distribution event.

This means in short: Same time, same place, but on Sunday July 18th!

If you have further queries get in touch and write us an E-Mail. We hope you can make it. In the meantime enjoy this wonderful rain video in preparation for the rainy day tomorrow, because we still think that it can be a beautiful weather phenomenon…

How can we make art accessible to everyone, and is this even a desirable goal? Isn’t there a risk for artworks of becoming random and falling in value? Or should one always overcome conventions in order to break new ground?

The contradictions regarding art are easily perceptible and especially art in public is often confronted with not only admirers but also with harsh criticism. Therefore our event “The art of giving art” wants to discuss possibilities and boundaries of art in public as a part of the Papergirl festival.

We will start with the Papergirl project itself by letting international Papergirl initiators introduce us to their very own project which they started in their home cities. Our guests are from England (Manchester), Romania (Bucharest), South Africa (Cape Town), and the USA (Albany, NY), and will provide insight into what drove them to start Papergirl, and which problems they had to overcome. This will be the basis for a further debate on an international scale.

For this purpose we also invited guests working in different cultural fields and therefore having various connections and experiences with art and its occurrence in public spaces: Juliane Breternitz is a cultural worker, Stéphane Bauer is a curator and head of the art space Bethanien in Kreuzberg, Lukas Feireiss is a curator as well and provides his expertise in public art for the Gestalten publishing company, Katharina Becker is a professional designer who also represents the Papergirl Berlin team in the discussion, and Marc Scherer owns the ATM gallery in Berlin and is furthermore an artist himself.

Is art in public spaces still a modern way of expression considering the digital age that we’re living in? Can this kind of art be provoking any longer now that it has been adopted so heavily by advertising? Or have we already reached an oversaturation?

In collaboration with the Papergirl visitors we will discuss the current status of artistic methods in public spaces, and moreover we will sketch visions of future developments. You are cordially invited to be our guests at this great event and we are looking forward to seeing you there!

Yesterday the Papergirl Berlin Team finally welcomed our eagerly awaited Papergirl Festival guests! So please say hi to Bianca, Bodgan, Andreea, and Octavia from Bucharest, Laura, Janice, and Laura from Manchester, Marcii from Cape Town, and of course Sina from Albany, New York who had already been a resident of Berlin before. We are so looking forward to hanging out more with these lovely people. If you want to meet them as well and pelt them with questions about Papergirl worldwide, we recommend attending our great discussion about art in public space tomorrow at the Neurotitan, and if you think that this is too much hotness to take – don’t worry we even have cooling fans!